{"id":326,"date":"2010-09-02T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T02:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2010-09-02T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T02:27:50","slug":"the-first-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/02\/the-first-day-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Day of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-327\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s walk to the main campus gave me a lot of opportunities for photographs including this one. \u00a0This is the scene at a high school about six blocks from the apartment. \u00a0Since school starts on September 1st, these students are engaged in school opening activities on the school track. \u00a0Like most high schools, the majority of these students live on the school grounds in dormitories, a practice that makes for an intense educational experience.<\/p>\n<p>Since we teach at the university level, the start date is determined by the university itself. \u00a0For C.I.T. \u00a0The first day of classes will be Monday, September 6th. \u00a0Maureen and I noticed that some of the students at He Hai University Changzhou campus which is also located very close to our apartment, are already into their school year program with the rest starting next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s walk to the main campus gave me a lot of opportunities for photographs including this one. \u00a0This is the scene at a high school about six blocks from the apartment. \u00a0Since school starts on September 1st, these students are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/02\/the-first-day-of-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,28,33,38,49,75,96,100,123,194,217,238],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c-i-t","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-communicate","tag-esl-blog","tag-first-day-of-school","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-jiangsu","tag-school","tag-teaching-esl","tag-xinbei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}